Have you visited the Power Apps Community blog lately? Along with rapidly growing forums, fun and informative events, and ways to leave feedback, the Community blog is a platform for you to share ideas with your peers, industry experts, and us here at Microsoft. To get started, simply message me, @JessicaC, with a rough title for your post and a couple of sentences to describe your topic. Now let’s look at some of the great posts from May and June!

It’s just one week until the Microsoft Data Insights Summit! If you’re attending, make sure to check out all the exciting community events we’ll be hosting in between panels and networking opportunities. We’ve got a QR Code Scavenger Hunt, prize giveaways, and an exciting Virtual Reality immersive experience. Of course our very popular photo booth will return this year with even more hats and props, as well as the famous Swag Prize Wheel! We’ll also be holding a raffle to attend limited book signings with keynote speakers Steven D. Levitt and Stephen J. Dubner, the authors of Freakonomics, and keynote speaker Alberto Cairo, author of The Truthful Art and The Functional Art.

With Microsoft PowerApps, you can connect to services such as SharePoint, Office 365, and Salesforce to create new data, quickly build apps based on this data (without writing any code), and then publish your apps across web and mobile. PowerApps offers templates for easy adoption, but you can also create our own custom apps with a visual builder tool. With the recent release of a Nexmo connector to PowerApps, you now can also integrate SMS and text-to-speech messaging to your applications. This post demonstrates how you can add Nexmo to your PowerApps, by integrating the connector to a template. Written by Glen Kunene, Editor-in-Chief of the platform marketing team at Nexmo, the Vonage API platform.

We’ve got a great lineup of webinars planned for May and June! Attend these free sessions to gain expertise in PowerApps, and learn more about how Power BI and Microsoft Flow can help improve your organization’s processes without a lot of overhead. Most of our webinars are delivered through YouTube, and you can subscribe to my channel to get notifications about all of these events. These webinars can also be viewed on-demand on YouTube after the event, if you’re not able to be a part of the live presentation. Check out what we’ve got planned!

Have you visited the Power Apps Community blog lately? Along with rapidly growing forums, fun and informative events, and ways to leave feedback, the Community blog is a platform for you to share ideas with your peers, industry experts, and us here at Microsoft. We want to hear what’s got you thinking about PowerApps and business applications! Check out these great posts from March.

It’s the final day to submit your fun and functional t-shirt ideas to the Design Your Own Swag contest! You can still Kudo your favorite t-shirt designs until April 13, 2017. The designs with the most Kudos and Twitter likes will be reviewed by a final judging panel, and their selections will be printed for the Data Insights Summit on June 12 – 13, 2017, and given away as part of PowerApps community events over the next year.

We have an exciting selection of webinars coming up over the next few months! Whether you’re new to PowerApps or an application expert — or anyone in-between — we’ve got the perfect free webinar for you, featuring experts from both Microsoft and your community. See what we have planned for Spring!

We want to help you dress for success! Some of our product t-shirts in the past have reached legendary status — everyone loves the “I’ve Got the Power BI” shirt! — and now we want to have your snazzy or crazy t-shirt ideas reach new heights at the 2017 Data Insights Summit, held June 12 – 13 in Seattle, WA. That’s why we’re holding a Design Your Own Swag t-shirt competition this week in the PowerApps Community.

Have you visited the Power Apps Community blog lately? Along with rapidly growing forums, fun and informative events, and ways to leave feedback, the Community blog is a platform for you to share ideas with your peers, industry experts, and us here at Microsoft. Every month, we’ll post highlights from the Community blog so you can catch up on any you may have previously missed. Check out these great posts from February!

Have you visited the Power Apps Community blog lately? Along with rapidly growing forums, event listings, and ways to leave feedback, the Community blog is a platform for you to share ideas with your peers, industry experts, and us here at Microsoft. If you’d like to contribute, simply message @Jessica with a rough title for your post and a couple of sentences to describe your topic. Let’s look at some of the great posts from January!